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collaboration focused on Heterodox economics.More info: Heterodox
economics refers to the approaches, or schools of economic thought,
that are considered outside of mainstream, that is, orthodox
economics. Heterodox economics is an umbrella term used to cover
various separate unorthodox approaches, schools, or traditions.
These include institutional, post-Keynesian, socialist, Marxian,
feminist, Austrian, ecological, and social economics among others.